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Parker R. Conrad ’02-’03 does an admirable job exposing Harvard Student Agencies’ (HSA) MicroFridge monopoly (Magazine, “What If It Were All a Lie?,” Oct. 10). However, the article neglects to mention one additional absurdity in HSA’s rental program. MicroFridges can be purchased directly from the manufacturer—Mac-Gray, the same company that services Harvard’s laundry machines—through their website collegerefrigerators.com. Buying the same microwave outright costs hundreds of dollars less than what HSA charges...
With the renewed scrutiny directed at Citibank Trinidad, Trinidad is reconsidering another controversial deal, a complex 1998 interest-rate swap now under review by its attorney general. Conrad Enill, Trinidad's Finance Minister, says his government is closely watching what happens in Dominica. So far no one has been willing to reopen the Trintomar transaction, but Seereeram persists. It took his father 15 years to win his sugar battle. Seereeram has been fighting for only four...
...just need to play our gaame,” sophomore goalie Conrad Jones said. “We didn’t do that on Sunday. If we come out strong and play our style of soccer we’ll be fine...
...details and themes in a long and truly frightening piece, "Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad," he turned into his novel Guerrillas. In "A New King for Congo," his meditation on the late Zairean kleptocrat, President Mobutu, he alludes to Heart of Darkness, comparing Conrad's Kurtz to Mobutu: "Seventy years later, at this bend in the river, something like Conrad's fantasy came to pass. But the man was black, and not white; and he had been maddened not by contact with wilderness and primitivism, but with civilization." This is Naipaul's first...
...cinema, seem rather squeezed, but many go into fascinating depth. Making and marketing includes a storyboard for the gangland adventure Grand Theft Auto taken straight from from the studio wall, which leads to a consideration of story-telling. "Narrative in video games is very non-linear," says curator Conrad Bodman. "There are subplots that may not lead to anything, but you have to work them all out" to find out what you have to do to win. The labyrinthine plot and convincing design may create a world in which players like to linger, but "Winning is always the final conclusion...